Sorry, didn't mean to use the word "filler" there. I'm trying to imply that some of those games aren't well known, and if we were to list all of those types of games for each console, we're be mired down in a bog, and be here all day.

I'll change that word to "popular" in my previous post.

His post was pognient, and I felt the need to counter it. I'm sorry if I offended, I certainly didn't mean to.

I apologize.

@Kantor

Couple of things, you wrote:

Don't be ridiculous. Why would you compare an FPS to a hack and slash? GT5 sales will obliterate those of Splinter Cell: Conviction, but that isn't really an intelligent comparison to make.

I comapred those to games, in order to reply to his equally unintelligent comparison of GoW3 and Crackdown 2. Read his comment, and you'll see that he made that comparison, and mine was intended as satire.

Splinter Cell is a popular series which has deteriorated over time. Even if Conviction improves, there will be those who have jumped ship. Not that it won't sell well- it will cross 2 million, has a shot at 3, but it can't stand up to a Rockstar North exclusive. It really can't. New IP or not.

I'm not so sure about that, but I guess we must agree to disagree. Conviction looks to be a retooling, if not a relaunch of the franchise, and after E3, it is highly anticipated.

I'm not sure who developed Bully, but it was one of my favorite games on the PS2, and it needed to be repackaged and rereleased several times in order to be profitable. As I've discussed previously, using examples like Infamous, the PS3 and to a lesser extent the Wii, has a tough time launching new IPs this generation. We shall see.

Nice list TC. I'd add DC Universe Online, The Agency, and White Knight Chronicles though.

I'm pretty hesitant to add another game from either Sucker Punch Productions or Guerrilla Games on the pending games list though. Neither of those studios are even remotely prone to annual releases.

If you're looking for games to add you can safely include MotorStorm 3 from Evolution Studios, Twisted Metal from Eat Sleep Play, MLB 10: The Show from SCE - San Diego, Starhawk from LightBox Interactive, and a fistful of SingStar games from SCE - London.

You really don't see how three established franchise and a game from the creators of Max Payne aren't matched by one established franchise, two games we know nothing about and one game from an incredibly niche genre...?

The only titles I would like to hear more about from that list are The last Guardian and God of War, but I don't even own a PS3... The others doesn't seem to appeal to me.

1) I agree his comparison was ridiculous (there's nothing really to compare GoW3 to, since NG seems to be multiplat now), but comparing Halo Reach to anything is just ridiculous. Fable III might have been a better comparison, but not a great one. They would sell about the same.

2) Bully was Rockstar Vancouver on PS2, Rockstar New England (lol) on PC and X360, and Rockstar Toronto on Wii. Rockstar North's only notable games are the Grand Theft Auto franchise, one of which has broken 20 million (just about), and all four of which have broken 10 million. The PSP games were made by Rockstar Leeds, GTA1 and 2 were DMA Design (so not technically Rockstar). Essentially, every Rockstar North game has sold over 10 million units. It's ludicrous to think that Agent would get near those numbers, for obvious reasons, such as the fact that Agent, like you said, is a new IP, and that the PS3's userbase can't support those numbers, except in the case of a massive long time exclusive franchise, such as GT5.

I don't think 5 million is out of reach for Agent, and 4 million is likely. Of course, we're both being ridiculous, because all we know about this game is that it's made by Rockstar North, it has a reasonably cool name, and you play as a spy in the Cold War.

Splinter Cell, the original, sold well over 5 million across PS2 and Xbox, with slightly more sales (around 300k) on Xbox. After that, the series has gone down in success. Observe:

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=Splinter+Cell&keyword=&console=&region=All&developer=&publisher=&genre=&boxart=Both&results=50&order=Sales

Pandora Tomorrow was well below, Chaos Theory and Double Agent were about equal below that (people bought more copies of Double Agent than Chaos Theory? People suck). Then, as we go down, we see that Conviction hasn't sold a single copy to date.

No. It was promising but no its outowned by Microsoft. Next year Sony only got two murder titles, God of War III and The Last Guaridan as well knowned by today. TLG doestn sell any hardware.

MS go the full line all the way with Conviction, Alan Wake, Crackdown 2, Halo REACH, and yet more to come.

1) Lol, WTF is a murder title?

2) God of War III, The Last Guardian, Heavy Rain, Agent, Quantum, Modnation, FF Versus XIII, FF14, Resistance 3, MAG, Twisted Metal, The Agency, DC Universe Online.

Try again.

LOL

Ouch~!!! hey kantor your slowly getting into this list warz bro.